Inhabit

The "world's first" social habit tracking app

Dart, Flutter, Firebase, JavaScript

As my mental health was failing towards the end of my tenure with FreshPlay I turned to the self-help community in an attempt to find an answer to the question of why I felt I was coming undone. This created some deep seated beliefs that both served and destroyed me.

I convinced myself that the answer was in productivity hacking, and that any shortcoming was a result of a poor system. I began to see myself as a machine that turned tasks into successes (or failures) and that there was no wiggle room for any alternative.

Inhabit is a habit tracking app that beats you over the head with accountability signals. You can setup your daily tasks and are given a streak of how many days in a row you've completed that task - easy - but you can also setup "rooms" that multiple people exist in all striving to complete the same habits. You can see who has completed which habits that day, you can see what streak each person is on and you can chat about/show off your progress in the chat room.

There's also a "news" style section that attempts to teach the tenets of self-discipline and mental toughness in short inspirational posts and quotes.

Inhabit is a beautiful app, designed mostly by Isis Mawdsley-Daiz with the occasional addition from myself during implementation. It's a very functional app, and serves its purpose well.

The only issue is that I don't believe in the principles its foundation is built upon. That's a bit of problem, isn't it?

I'm working on a new version of Inhabit that takes a gentler approach; I believe that productivity systems are excellent tools and that atomic-style habits are superb when employed correctly... but that everyone needs something slightly different and that focusing entirely on productivity creates more problems than it solves.

• Getting stuff from conception to release is hard, but I did it!
• Isis is a fantastic designer, and the quality of any given project can be greatly enhanced by utilising the right people at the right time
• A lot of self-help content is nonsense, and basing your whole life around those principles will utterly destroy your mental frame